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"...while adding automatic multiplex sound streams, meaning you can play many sound streams at the same time without a sound server..." For how long has ALSA had this ability? Can anyone verify this? My own reading/experience suggests that ALSAcan't handle mixing different streams. I would check the project's site, but it is mysteriously unreachable right now... --Dirk Gently 17:47, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
you're right, informtaion's wrong. removed it.
According tothis page on the ALSA wiki, the Dmix plugin is automatically enabled now for hardware that doesn't mix multiple streams. Since I've had a SB Live for a while (it does hardware mixing) I can't personally verifiy if this is the case. That paragraph (or something similar) should be returned to the article.Imroy13:55, 22 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
The paragraph is wrong, ALSA does not do auto software mixing. Ubuntu Dapper uses Alsa 1.0.10 (fairly recent) and on my Intel snd-hda-intel chipset audio it does not have hardware support and ALSA does not automagically add mixing. I would LOVE it to. Oh and the web site for ALSA does seem down. kw_123
as of 12/1/2007 or 1.0.14 or Ubuntu 7.10 gutsy there is software mixing, just use the default or plughw interfaces. However some applications may access sound via oss or esd, bypassing alsa, which may prevent the alsa mixing output from reaching the sound card.Novelist22:16, 1 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
While not fully specific to ALSA only, I plan to post a chart documenting architecture evolution here, which may be helpful for other Linux users.
Rationale: The diagram is supposed to allow now (and also in future!) to get an overview whatis currently used _and_ what has been used in the past, which aids in discerning old man pages, hints and seeming solutions (which could have become obsolote for example).